Biodiversity Quotes - Page 4

• Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

  Martin Rees

  Loss, Action, Global Warming

  "Dark materials". Essay by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.

  Robert Bateman

  Animal, Names, Attention

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• Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Appreciation, Cells, Joy

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Man has created death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men

  'Death'

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• If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity conservation in Egypt as has occurred elsewhere in the world. It's the government's call. If they continue to put people in high-level positions that have no knowledge, experience or even interest in environment, Egypt will not advance. The country has very good national experts so why not use them?

  Mindy Baha El Din

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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  Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

  Hermann Hesse

  Positive, Being Yourself, Time

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

  Richard Di Natale

  Country, Loss, Law

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Air, Water

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• We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

  Kristy Hinze

  Future, Unique, Australia

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• The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mean, Hands, Inappropriate

  "Vandana Shiva: 'Seeds must be in the hands of farmers'". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Immortality, Achieve

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• I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Expression, Greed, Scarcity

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• In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.

  Richard Leakey

  Might, Protection, Easier

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• For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Rights, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Stupid, Pepsi

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• Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

  Rumi

  Power, Looks, World

  "Stephen Hawking’s Grand Book - Where Is the Design?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Thinking, Turtles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.

  Stephen Fry

  Habitat, May, Able

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.160, The Overlook Press

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• Belief creates biology.

  Norman Cousins

  Belief, Biology

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• And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Animal, Data

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• We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. It’s also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, it’s an economic issue, not just an ecological one.

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, People, Owl

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

  Peter Garrett

  Loss, Space, Generations

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• The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Humility, Thinking, Understanding

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

  Thomas Friedman

  Together, Needs, Safari

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources. Indeed, the process of consumption and waste seems to overlook any concern for ... biodiversity, which is so important for agriculture.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Land, Agriculture

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